Blood Donors Needed!

Please donate every 90 days. Banked Blood that is tested, processed and available is the Life-Saving Blood.

These are the Regional and the National Blood Centre.

Now Accepting Donors from the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, France 🇫🇷 and Ireland 🇮🇪 who lived in the Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease region from 1980-1996 (mad cow 🐄 disease) time-frame. Special processing for blood is needed.

Please kindly note that I am an Expat Volunteer and do not have any control over which blood banks are accepting.

💝 Give the Gift of Life 💝

Locations of The National Blood Centres and Regional Blood Centres.

These are the preferred places to donate as they have responsibility and distribute throughout their Region and may transfer throughout Thailand.

Maps and Locations are in the comments

ALL Blood Types are needed and are used. However, Rh-Negative is EXTREMELY Rare in the Thai population and we encourage Westerners to donate.

Donor Eligibility criteria is pinned on the top of my Page.

PRIMARY qualifications include:

📅 Reside in Thailand for 90 days prior to donating

✅ Under 60 if first-time donor in Thailand or can prove donation in other country within one year. 70 is highest age.

🛑 No alcohol 24 hours prior

✅ Healthy low-fat meal at least three hours prior

✅ Tattoos older than 4 months

Full Registration Form is pinned on this Page

💝Your donation will Save a Life 💝

Hi all

I have only recently joined this group and to be frank I am amazed at the level of questions being asked every day. It appears to me that the visa process is an absolute minefield or am I being somewhat naive.

I would suggest that a lot of questions could be answered by contacting the Thai authorities in the home countries of those asking. I am about to embark on a 3 week fact finding mission to Pattya to check out locales etc with a view to perhaps returning full time. In that instance I will be sitting down with my local Thai consulate and finding out from them what my responsibilities are.

Any thoughts appreciated as I am nervous about the whole process given what I read here on any given day.

Is there more risk to get denied entry at a land border (Laos-Thailand) or Chiang Mai airport?

Thanks

I am a U.S. citizen, I will be marrying my Thai fiance sometime this year. Which should I do, retirement or marriage visa?

Hello, I’m looking to apply for the DTV visa online. Is proof of one month Muy Thai classes enough to apply or does it need to be more time? I saw a few ppl mention Tiger Eye, any other suggestions would be appreciated . Thanks!

Hi guys, I wonder if anyone can give me some advice. Is there anyone on here that has moved to Thailand from the U.K at all? Looking for some guidance on this matter if anyone can help. How difficult is this to achieve? The do’s and don’t’s as it were.

Hey guys, this is a grreat opportunity to help our expat community by donating your MUCH NEEDED blood PLUS you get a FREE lunch!

If you are in Thailand and have the right blood type, please donate your blood 🩸🙏🏻

This young man is fighting for his life ❤️

Apologies admin if this is inappropriate.

URGENT - PLEASE SHARE

O Negative blood donors sought 🙏

UPDATE;

URGENT request for O Negative blood donations for Bangkok Hospital Phuket until tomorrow morning.

If there are group members in Phuket that could donate before the patient flys by air ambulance tomorrow morning (Saturday 24th February,) his name is and reference is RUPERT GUY BARRETT, Bangkok Hospital, PHUKET, and they could take the units with him on the flight.

If there are group members in Bangkok city, that could donate ready for when he arrives for emergency heart surgery, his reference is RUPERT GUY BARRETT, Bangkok Hospital, BANGKOK.

Thank you so much for your kind consideration (and sharing by screenshot) of this appeal. Thank you.

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We are hoping that members here might assist;

We have a good friend who is visiting Phuket and has become gravely unwell after 2 heart attacks these last days.

He needs (an unplanned) triple bypass, but he has an extremely rare blood group (O-negative) and there are only between 3 to 5 units (some imported from Singapore this last week) in the whole of Thailand. Not enough for the vascular surgeons in to even consider this surgery.

He is currently in The Bangkok Phuket Hospital and we could use some help regarding blood donations and who and where to ask for assistance regarding asking for further help finding blood donations (very rare O-neg) regarding this.

If you could spread this message, the patient reference is Mr Rupert Guy Barrett, care of Bangkok, Phuket Hospital and he may be in with a chance if any group members have or know somebody that has the rare blood group O Negative and might consider donating blood.

By all means, PM me if you would prefer.

Thank you in advance for any assistance. 🙏

COVID Extensions in Chiang RAI:

What is the procedure and the gotchas of COVID extensions in Chiang Rai? Specifically, do they apply that “under consideration” nonsense like in Chiang Mai, i.e. where they would waste ones valuable passport pages and time by stamping in a under consideration stamp first, and make you come back about 14 days later for another stamp of the remaining days? And is it busy these days? Else, where in the area / neighboring cities can COVID extensions be done smoothly and directly? Thanks.